Friday, May 20, 2016

The Model Railroad Club of Ontario: Back to Life!

"With brave faces,
they did their final runs, then symbolically, they cut the mainline,"
was how a reporter chronicled the end of the O scale layout, which had
been in the same location since 1946.

Well, that was then and
this is now: Next weekend, May 28-29, the club has its first public open house
to show off progress on the new layout, called the Central Ontario Railway.

And what a magnificent
layout it is! Even though it isn't nearly done, and much of it is in benchwork,
you can see the promise and potential.

Not all of the layout is new; club members incorporated elements
of the old layout, including the major yards with their hundreds of switches and
thousands of feet of handlaid track.

As they
say on their Facebook page, "with a bit of year of room prep, benchwork,
trackwork, electrical, DCC integration and lots of effort, the 'patient' is now
off life support and is slowly coming back."

Unfortunately, living in
Winnipeg means I can't be there for the open house. But I wish them well in
this, and all future endeavours.

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